Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0393324818
- ISBN 13
- 9780393324815
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004 W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 2004. Softcover/Trade wraps. 9th Printing by Line Number. Book Condition: Very Good; price label on rear; light crease on front wrap; light edge and tip wear. No DJ. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. 317 pp 8vo. Moneyball is the quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected the author follows the low-budget Oakland Athletics, visionary general manager Billy Beane and the strange brotherhood of amateur theorists. All in search of new baseball knowledge- insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money. A very presentable copy with a new afterword.
Synopsis
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael M. Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team's modernized, analytical, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite Oakland's disadvantaged revenue situation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009104
- Title
- Moneyball
- Author
- Michael Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0393324818
- ISBN 13
- 9780393324815
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- BASEBALL STATISTICS, OAKLAND ATHLETICS, BILLY BEANE, MONEYBALL, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball Scouts, baseball knowledge, baseball by computer, business of baseball, statistical analysis of baseball,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.